"Scare the dickens out of" nghĩa là gì?

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"Scare the dickens out of one" có từ dickens là ma, quỷ -> cụm từ này nghĩa là bất ngờ khiến ai phát hoảng, kinh hãi/thất kinh.

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If the events — before, during and after — of Hurricane Irma were not enough to scare the dickens out of you, I don’t know what will. I cannot impress (ghi sâu) enough upon the readers of this column how important it is to be totally prepared for a natural disaster before any warnings are issued.

Other times, she tries to scare the dickens out of me by saying something like, “You’re misplacing (để không đúng chỗ) things a lot lately, and I’m starting to worry...” Then, down the rabbit hole we go.

With Halloween just around the corner, haunted houses around the country aim to scare the dickens out of people, but one man offers what can only be described as an ‘extreme experience’ in Alabama and Tennessee that’s so terrifying he requires participants bring a medical clearance and sign a 40-page waiver (giấy khước từ).

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